Some news
While we are finishing our paintings (only about 160 to go), I want to say a few things that have happened lately. You know that I am usually not a lousy blog writer (see the blog entries before May 30th), but Rahel and I have been so busy with the paintings that we even cancelled our vacation. We're socially totally disconnected from the rest of the world. But things should be fine again in August.
Anyways, here's the news: We bought a car.
Ok, buying a car is not a big deal, but for me, it's the first car I ever bought (earlier ones were inherited), and it's also the biggest investment I ever made in my entire life.
What's really special, however, is that it's not just a car to drive around in the city (which is a stupid thing to do in Zurich anyways), but we want to drive it from Zurich, Switzerland, to Auckland, New Zealand, next year.
And here it is:
To be precise, that's not our car on the image - but it's the same type, same color, and obviously same purpose :-)
I am very excited about this trip, and we want to have a travel blog so that everybody can follow up how things are going (for example, at the border of Iran - Pakistan ;-). I plan to have a kickass blog, not only because I would love readers to read it, but also because that is how I will be able to remember the trip. Digital life in 2007, I guess. Think about all the possibilities with a camera, video cam, a laptop, Google Maps (forgive me, but there is no alternative right now), WordPress and plenty of times at hand. I think it's gonna be great. Ah, sweet self-promotion!
Nomen est omen, and hence have I just reserved the domain name zurich-auckland.com.
That's it for today. Hope you are all fine, and sorry again for letting aharef run dry at the moment. I'll be back soon.
PS. For those interested in the graphs: I was thinking about making posters of the graphs since I programmed the applet, and now I have finally found a designer that I am very excited to work with on the project: Ben Schlitter from Kansas. Ben is a great guy and a brilliant designer. Check out his website at www.benschlitter.com.